Five boxing shaman in 5v5 arena questions

[Boylston]

If you were to use the 4xNS+EM+CL when fully geared in s3 + vindicators + gems, what would a purged targets remaining hp be in most cases?

Depends on their gear and class. The big combo still won't kill a fully purged target unless they're undergeared.

Does this have to do with expending your NS+EM+CL combo?

Somewhat. It has more to do with the incoming damage you're receiving. Good teams can have me losing a shammy or two fairly quickly, and if my healer isn't perfect, there's going to be a death or two. Then things go downhill...

I never took a second at all to think that they could get a rez off, is it because it's that much harder to multi task and make sure they are in combat?

Yeah, you're not going to keep track of and lock out two rezzers by yourself as effectively as you can with two independently-controlled characters.


I did a big write-up on ToW from a theorycrafting perspective. You need NS for the big kill combo that makes shaman so effective. However, ToW will effectively neutralize a lot of the benefits of high resilience. If you're just going to hover near 1500 and like ToW for PvE, you can probably get away with not respeccing for arena. If you're at all serious about arena, 40/21 is the way to go.